Neolithic Archaeology

This Hungarian saying must have been written by an archaeologist! Archaeological science is all about making little things—pottery fragments, chunks of daub, pieces of stone tools—add up to one big, coherent picture of what happened in the past. As a result of all our hard work over the last two years, those small pieces are finally coming together, and we’re beginning to get an understanding of how the site at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom became a major regional center at the end of the Neolithic period.

We’re rocking and rolling now! The weather has turned in our favor. The last week has been warmer and it hasn't rained very much. Most of the mud has dried up, and we’re concurrently running seven or eight field crews every day. We've nearly doubled the information we had last year, and we’re not even halfway through the season. Everyone on the project is absolutely thrilled with the results so far, and we’re all eager to see what else we’ll discover.

Thank you all for joining us and following along during our exciting field season in Hungary earlier this year! As promised, I wanted to send you a quick dispatch to fill you in on what’s been happening here at home after we returned from the field—and what our plans are for our upcoming spring expedition.